Contesting knowledge museums and indigenous perspectives /

Contesting knowledge museums and indigenous perspectives / [electronic resource] : edited by Susan Sleeper-Smith - Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, c2009 - 1 online resource (362 p.) : ill., maps

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Includes bibliographical references and index

Contesting knowledge : museums and indigenous perspectives / Susan Sleeper-Smith -- The legacy of ethnography / Ray Silverman -- Elite ethnography and cultural eradication: confronting the cannibal in early nineteenth-century Brazil / Hal Langfur -- Ethnographic showcases as sites of knowledge production and indigenous resistance / Zine Magubane -- Reinventing George Heye: nationalizing the Museum of the American Indian and its collections / Ann McMullen -- Ethnographic elaborations, indigenous contestations, and the cultural politics of imagining community: a view from the District Six Museum in South Africa / Ciraj Rassool -- Museums and indigenous perspectives on curatorial practice / Jacki Thompson Rand -- A dialogic response to the problematized past : the National Museum of the American Indian / Miranda J. Brady -- West side stories: the blending of voice and representation through a shared curatorial practice / Brenda MacDougall and M. Teresa Carlson -- Huichol histories and territorial claims in two national anthropology museums / Paul Liffman -- The construction of native voice at the National Museum of the American Indian / Jennifer Shannon -- Creation of the tribal museum / Brenda J. Child -- Tsi?niyukwaliho?t[lambda], the Oneida Nation Museum : creating a space for Haudenosaunee kinship and identity / Kristina Ackley -- Reimagining tribal sovereignty through tribal history : museums, libraries, and archives in the Klamath River region / Brian Isaac Daniels -- Responsibilities towards knowledge: the Zuni Museum and reconciling of different knowledge systems / Gwyneira Isaac -- Museums as sites of decolonization : truth telling in national and tribal museums / Amy Lonetree.


Mode of access : Internet

9780803225114 (electronic bk.) 0803225113 (electronic bk.)


Ethnological museums and collections
Indians--Museums
Indian museum curators--Attitudes
Museums--Acquisitions--Moral and ethical aspects
Museum exhibits--Moral and ethical aspects
Museums--Collection management

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